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A nameless, orphaned Russian army doctor is the narrator of Requiem for a Lost Empire, an epic novel that traces three generations of a Russian family through the turbulent political struggles of the twentieth century.
Spanning eight decades --from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Cold War to the fall of Communism --the book follows the narrator's grand-father, Nikolai, a Red Army deserter who seeks peace and isolation in a remote forest village. Years later, his son Pavel will fight in World War II, become a KGB spy, and, like Nikolai, return to his native Caucasus in a vain attempt to escape the increasing tyrannies of the postwar Soviet era. It is here, amidst the raging warfare, espionage, and crushing poverty, where our narrator is born. Sweeping in its scope and heartbreaking in its truths, Requiem for a Lost Empire is both a harrowing history of the Soviet Union and a loving tribute to the fortitude of its people.
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A letdown compared with "Dreams of My Russian Summers".......2007-03-11
Unfortunately, I cannot report that Andrei Makine's "Requiem for a Lost Empire" is anything close to as good as his "Dreams of My Russian Summers". Read the book summary for the overall plot, but, basically the novel portrays the lives of three generations of the same family, as each generation literally has to escape for their lives--during the Russian Revolution, during World War II, and during the Cold War. The chases during the first two generations were gripping, but the narrative in second half of the novel just seemed to lose focus. I had a hard time putting the book together at the end.
Even more of a let down, and it is hard to put this in words, was that this novel did not contain the unbelievably beautiful writing found throughout "Dreams of My Russian Summers". The book wasn't lengthy, though I wouldn't have reread it knowing what I do now.
Epic Russian novel, yet 250 pp. only!.......2006-05-08
The opening sentence, which you can see via Amazon's search, reminded me of the beginning of Garcia Marquez' "One Hundred Years of Solitude." In fact, after reading the whole novel by Makine, "Requiem" reminds me of the lyrical, melancholic, and subdued side of epic realism mixed with a dreamier, French-influenced, narrative rooted in reverie and memory closer to much in Russian fiction. It takes its time to tell, in only 250 pp., a story spanning about eight decades and three generations. The Gallic quality of Makine's prose permeates Geoffrey Strachan's smooth translation into English. I imagine Makine's French sounds much like we read him in English--without as much violence done in translating as often occurs!
While reviews have summarized the plot, the prose style, for me, stands out most. Among dozens of possible examples, here's my favorite: "The winter night was warm, the rain at the window split up the city's glow into an infinity of twinkling lights. Myriads of luminous dots spread out before me, a crude symbol of human dispersal: to discover a lost person all you would have to do would be to visit each of these sources of light, one after another, over the whole planet. Often in my despair this infinite sifting of the lights seemed to be achievable." (178) This shows Makine's sensitivity, his concern for crafting evocative images, and his skill at arranging his words.
The novel, also, has relevance for the early 21st c. The protagonist speculates about "the wars started in order to test new weapons, those ended in order to lower the price of a barrel of crude oil. " (224-5) The breakup of the Soviet empire brings this book, in its latest of the three generations of stories, into a realm where both the US and the USSR fight a Cold War by proxy. The shrewd cynicism of media, political, and personal manipulation energizes this novel with a more serious current that much of popular espionage or historical fiction.
I sense that Makine is rising from being a skilled tale-teller into one who may reach the higher ranks of the literati among European novelists; given this ambitious yet admirably compact novel, he is destined for success. He cuts his scenes down, despite their often delicate prose, into vignettes and ruminations that convey the spirit of the times more than the immediate action alone, and this added texture deepens the action with contemplation. This is a thoughtful meditation on Russia, for wherever the plot carries the characters, that wonderfully rooted opening sentence from some redoubt in the Caucasus brings that family back to its heartland, in spirit if not always assuredly in fact.
Truths and betrayals.......2005-03-01
With Requiem Andreï Makine has created a panoramic novel of eight decades of Soviet/Russian history starting in 1917. It is a story of extraordinary emotional intensity. For anybody like me with interest in the Russian "condition humaine", this is a must read. While written as fiction, it depicts realities and truths of lives lived during Soviet times and since. Makine, born and brought up in Russia, emigrated to France in 1987 and writes his novels in French. He has found an excellent translator in Geoffrey Strachan.
Requiem is anchored in the narrator, the last of three generations of one family. Makine weaves the description of the father's and grandfather's lives into the son's narrative. It is a story within and told as conveyed to him by a third party. This technique establishes a lens singling out or highlighting specific details and events. At the same time the method creates a certain emotional distance for both the protagonist and the reader from the vicious excesses of the Soviet regime and the horrors of war. In stark contrast to the depiction of devastation, scorched earth and expanding killing fields, is the description of nature and landscapes in all their beauty and harmony. There is something nostalgic and even surreal in the soothing power that the land and rural life has over the father and grandfather. It is a refuge sought from the fighting that restores and gives life. It is the dream that sustains the soldier and keeps him alive against all odds. Happiness and love, even if short-lived are possible and experienced here.
The unnamed narrator was severed from this nourishing power, his sense of identity lost since early childhood, his "own memories falsified from birth". Rescued by an enigmatic family friend just prior to the killing of his parents, he grows up as an orphan. The sense of being an outsider never leaves him. Working as a medical doctor in African countries he moves from crisis to crisis. An offer to join the KGB comes almost as relief; changing identities as required for his life as a spy is the easiest part. He is thrown back into the African quagmire, caught between the Cold War's competing fronts. With a few brush strokes, Makine captures the essence of the increasingly perilous political games being played out in developing countries. The "game of espionage" brings the agent and his female partner closer together. While his feelings for her grow deeper, his outlook on life is put to the test: "To be able to tell the truth one day." This is her wish to which he responds by telling her his family's story as conveyed to him by the old friend years ago.
The story of Nikolai, the grandfather, and his son Pavel portrays two generations of soldiers caught up in the brutalities of the two major wars and the rise of Stalin. The growing violence of the Soviet regime is illustrated through specific episodes and incidents. Nikolai, fighting with the Red Army, rides off one day from the combat not too far from his home, yearning for peace on his land. Pavel joined the Soviet army to battle the Germans in World War II. He ends up in a penal company - canon fodder at the frontlines. The narrative of the fighting, the loss of comrades and Pavel's endurance is harrowing in its vivid detail. Most haunting is the image of an attempt to free a concentration camp with German snipers still hiding between the barracks. Pavel survives the war only to find "home" destroyed. Completely rudderless and troubled by the nightmares of his experiences, he drifts, runs, and hides from the deeply disquieting postwar Soviet reality in a remote area in the Caucasus.
Makine has an extraordinary talent to create a dramatic framework for his story while directing the reader toward concrete specific events. Nikolai, after deserting from the Red Army, has to confront the local Soviet officials who have been forcing individual farmers to accept the collectivization of their farms. Having observed what happened to his neighbours, Nikolai turns the rationale upside down. His farm tools and his old horse are in such poor condition, he argues, that handing them over to the kolkhoz would be equal to sabotage. For Pavel the chances of survival were counted in days, maximum months: the "distance that lay between him and death could be measured in the numbers killed". There was no point in sharing one's name as the probability of staying alive to the next day was almost nil.
The continuation of Pavel's story is the narrator's own story of survival, physically and emotionally. The end of the Cold War and the subsequent "disappearance of the Empire" leave him confused and challenge him to establish a new life. He feels the need for an ongoing inner dialogue with his former partner: she becomes the focus of his search for the truth. Finding her comes close to an obsession. The Parisian society crowd that he joins in his quest, speaks mockingly of the Soviet army and of his country, calling it a "phantom country". He should react, explain, or contradict the views presented. Yet, he feels unable to intervene, an outside observer, not able to fit in whether it is Moscow or Paris. Ultimately, his search for answers, his truth and for his peace of mind ends unexpectedly.
Makine has created a powerful and profoundly moving portrait of one Russian family set against the dramatic backdrop of the complex realities of the Soviet era and its collapse. His characters embody real people, individuals with deep emotions showing vigour and endurance in adverse circumstances and surviving on the strength of their roots and connection to their land. The stories of their lives will linger in the reader's mind for a long time. [Friederike Knabe]
Telling the truth.......2001-11-14
It is always difficult to say what Andrei Makine's books are about. One could describe the plot or the story-line and feel that one hasn't said anything at all. Makine's novels are like all great works of art. They set up a resonance inside us that is intensely pleasureable and also painful. In Requiem, as in his other novels, Makine's prose is poetic and technically flawless, the historical content is fascinating and his irony and humor elicit a warm rush of recognition and laughter. Like all great art, it also makes us painfully aware of what is unexpressed in us.
If one can say that Dreams of My Russian Summers is "about" the birth of a writer, then Requiem for a Lost Empire is about the struggle to tell or speak the truth. There is a silence that bounds this struggle. The three generations of men in this novel live with the women they love largely in silence. One of the women even has her tongue cut out. Yet somehow, this silence is a state of grace. Most of the time we live in the contiuum between, caught between our superstitious fear of naming things and our compulsion to do so. Makine's efforts to tell the truth, whatever level of truth one wishes to draw from his writing, have produced an exquisitely beautiful and haunting novel.
A century distilled.......2001-10-04
Andrei Makine adds another laurel to his impressive writing career with the release of Requiem for a Lost Empire. In this short book (250 pages) Makine surveys the past century of change in Russia from the fall of the Czars and the rise of the people, through Stalin and World War II, through the Cold War with its ominous KGB into today with the undercover lives of common men striving to retain the promises of Communism. Makine does this seemingly incredible feat through the eyes of one family - sons and fathers who lived through the various phases of critical change that Russia (empire, USSR, etc) has undergone. In nonlinear fashion he draws multifacted, complex characters with flashbacks and flashforwards in a way that makes this less a history book (though it is valuably one) than the novel it is. And as if that weren't enough, Makine writes with a grace and poetry that suffuse his tale with lasting visuals and ominous grit. That the author left Russia to live in France and has written all his books to date in Frence means that we are also experiencing the work of a master translator. This little book is a gripping masterwork - highly recommended reading.
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Twenty stories: werewolves and other transmutations.......2006-06-07
Andrews, J. Edwin: "Talla" the Dragon Mistress is a healer who demands five years of service for a healing - not from the patient, but from the one who requests her services.
Andrews, Mavis J.: "The Hunters" A young human hunter is caught alone on the ice by a pack of wolf-like creatures, having killed members of their pack.
Carpenter, Melissa: "A Tale From Hendry's Mill" concerns not practical Hendry herself, but her younger daughter, an awkward, naive dreamer who accidentally attracts the attention of a passing demon. Attempts at suggesting an interesting backstory for the demon; undeveloped protagonist.
Cirone, Patricia B.: "S.A.R." A would-be-gymnast-turned thief, caught in the midst of a break-in, suddenly finds herself dropped onto a plain apparently in answer to a stranger's prayer for help. The editor's preface for this hurts more than helps.
Heydt, Dorothy J: "The Song and the Flute" A Cynthia story (Heydt having written several of them for SWORD AND SORCERESS both before this volume and in the twenty years since its original publication). Cynthia - a very opinionated Greek widow in Roman times - is quite definitely in charge of the two male magicians with whom she's fleeing across the open sea, attempting on the one hand to call up winds by magical song and on the other to avoid the Sirens. "Next time, we must be sure to steal the boat with the new *sails*, not the one with the new paint."
Johnson, Polly B.: "Fresh Blood" is needed to rejuvenate the inbred royal house of the Immortals in the Aztec-flavoured culture, but the young Ruling Princess' willingness to question even the real powers behind the throne - the priests and her chamberlain - may end in a different sort of fresh blood. One of the best stories in here.
Judith, Anodea: "The River of Tears" The Healers' Academy has no set length for training; Subhana, near the end of her strength after four years, must still fight for the life of a patient whose condition has been aggravated by the stress of dealing with a cruel husband.
Kenin, Millea: "Scarlet Eyes" The protagonist is a sorceress who has fled an arranged marriage by escaping into a previous incarnation - confusing both for her famous ancestor and for her, since the history books didn't record *everything*.
Kramer-Rolls, Dana: "Journeytime" The very junior priestess Esme, sent out to collect taxes along the border with a dangerous neighbouring kingdom, learns not only about the lives of common soldiers but of the wheels within wheels of temple politics and schism.
Lackey, Mercedes: "Sword Sworn" One of Lackey's first two professional sales (see also FREE AMAZONS OF DARKOVER), this first Tarma and Kethry story can also be found in OATHBLOOD. Rape/revenge story, with the complication that in Tarma's culture a bloodfeud can be pursued only by priests/priestesses devoted to the clans as a whole.
Moon, Elizabeth: Set in the world of THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION, the protagonists get very good "Bargains" on their purchases in the market. But you get what you pay for...
Overstreet, A.D.: "Enter the Wolf" - the only fighting-age survivor of The Pack (elite fighting unit with overtones of priestesshood), who has been sent out on her First Quest to regain two sacred charges: a religious relic and the child prince whose bodyguard she should rightly be. Worth reading but awkward in places, e.g. how a lone survivor could get as far as the protagonist does if veterans could be destroyed so easily.
Paxson, Diana L.: Shanna (see volumes I, II) and Chai (introduced in "Sky Sister", see MOONSINGER'S FRIENDS) are lost in "The Mist on the Moor", where two strange oldsters set them odd tests in exchange for healing Shanna's horse.
Roberson, Jennifer: "Valley of the Shadow" Reminiscent of Roberson's first Sword-Dancer short story (which appeared in another volume of these anthologies) as a very dangerous woman attracts the admiration of two assassins in a tavern.
Saunders, Charles R.: Separated from her war-bull in strange country, Dossouye follows him into "Marwe's Forest" where each of them for a time finds companionship. Dossouye (introduced in a previous volume) is a warrior of Abomey wandering the world after surviving a catastrophe her religion says should have killed her.
Tafoya, Terry: "Tupilak" is a shaman's construct that must be animated by the shaman's own soul - the only spell that might make the murderer of the protagonist's father vulnerable to revenge. But she's also his only teacher in the ways of becoming an Inuit shaman...
Waters, Elisabeth: "A Woman's Privilege" The fates of the shape-changer Acila and her mentally-afflicted brother hang on whether they can together defeat a conqueror seeking to murder one sibling and marry the other.
Wheeler, Deborah: A nature-wizard is called upon to aid a wounded man carryng "Dragon-Amber" - formidable protection for one who can't remember his own name. Suffers from trying to deal with too many plot twists without space to develop them.
Woeltjen, L.D.: "More's the Pity" The mercenary protagonist, attempting to coax information out of a dying opponent, wonders whether they're bound by more than the kinship of their profession.
Zambreno, Mary Frances: "Orpheus" "She'd never been to hell before, but a job was a job." In this case, Jennet and Sylvia have been hired to negotiate the release of another woman's lover from a Greek-style Hell, but neither gods nor mercenaries like those who make contracts in bad faith. Original ideas for getting past Cerberus and for making a treacherous bargainer *pay*.
Putting Women in their Place-As Heroes of the Fantasy genre.......2002-06-22
This is Marion Zimmer Bradley's third anthology of sword and sorcery fiction devoted to stories where women are the protagonists. They come in many forms, warriors, thieves, mages, healers, wise-women, adventurers and wanderers. MZB sticks to her guns throughout-these are not romances, nor are they stories where women are the sidekicks, or simply women to be overcome by a more powerful male. Instead, this anthology holds a wide range of stories, and an infinitely wide range of heroines. Since the first Sword and Sorceress anthology, these stories became increasingly popular, so that MZB had received rampant submissions for this third anthology from hopeful writers. Most of her intro delves into her editing methods, and what she expects from a story. Readers get to see a bit of the process behind selection, as well as MZB's sharp and humorous personality that I personally found delightful.
MZB once more serves up a range of voices; from familiar returning favorites, to brand new first sales. Probably one of the most noteworthy new authors, in my opinion, is Mercedes Lackey. "Sword Sworn" is, I believe, Misty's debut as a published author, and is certainly the first introduction to her unforgettable mercenary heroines, Tarma and Kethry who are the protagonists of Lackey's later novels; OATHBOUND and OATHBREAKERS. Lackey has gone on to quite a career since then, but even this first short story showcases her talents as a writer. As to returning favorites, MZB has included an interesting tale of a dragon and a young nature-wizard "Dragon Amber" by Deborah Wheeler (noteworthy, in part because Bradley tends to dislike any sort of `cliché' dragon story), "Valley of Shadow" by Jennifer Roberson, "Journeytime" by Dana Kramer-Rolls, "Marwe's Forest" by Charles Saunders, and "The Mist on the Moor" by Diana L. Paxson.
"Journeytime" by Dana Kramer-Rolls, "The River of Tears" by Anodea Judith, and "Sword Sworn" by Mercedes Lackey are more serious ventures, dealing with the transformation of character and the journey, both physical and spiritual, these characters make. Unlike her first two anthologies, number three has a greater number of serious stories, the balance of humor is not as prevalent, still there are one or two that lighten the mood. "Orpheus" by Mary Frances Zambreno is about an unusual pair of women adventurers sent to retrieve a soul from the underworld, and "Bargains" by Elizabeth Moon where the bargains in question, may be no bargain at all.
Among my favorites is "A Tale From Hendry's Mill" by Melisa Carpenter, an interesting take on the `rape and revenge' theme, and one very likable heroine. "More's the Pity" by L. D. Woeltjen is a haunting tale that works its spell very effectively in a few short pages. As mentioned above, "Sword Sworn" by Mercedes Lackey is her introduction to two female mercenaries, and a powerful story of both sword and sorcery-and vengeance. Perhaps the most intriguing story is Jennifer Roberson's "Valley of the Shadow". It's one you'll just have to read.
All of the stories in this anthology are strongly written and well selected, although there are quite a few longer, more serious pieces than in the last two anthologies. I still consider this collection worth five stars, but could have wished for one or two shorter humorous pieces interspersed in the mix. For any reader who enjoys reading stories about women in fantasy, this is definitely a good place to find them! If you have read this anthology and have enjoyed it, I highly recommend finding the first two anthologies-they're just as well written!
Happy reading! ^_^ --shanshad
Where????.......1997-12-30
I would like to write a review but I can not find the book at any library or at any stores. Can somebody please help me out.
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- One of the best....and most depressing science fiction novels
- Hard Sci-fi look at relativity and alien worlds
- A Great Read!
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Flying to Valhalla
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One of the best....and most depressing science fiction novels.......2007-01-16
This is one of the finest science fiction novels out there. And one of the few that actually stands up when it comes to real science.
Ultimately, it is also arguably one of the most depressing books ever written when you take everthing to its logical conclusion.
The book (and I doubt I'm giving anything away here) basically concludes that if humans ever find intelligent life in the universe, we will have to either destroy it outright or forcibly keep it from building a technological society because of the dangers of relativistic attack. That is, a mass of just a few thousand tons accelerated to about 90% of the speed of light would be enough to exterminate all life on earth. And there would be no defense whatsoever against such an attack.
Furthermore, at the end the authors also conclude that not only will humans be obligated to destroy the sentient life it finds, but that humans will never be able to actually colonize worlds around other stars. Because of the minute chance that one of the colonies will turn into a "Saddam's World" and destroy all life on Earth with a relativistic attack.
Very depressing though very well argued.
Hard Sci-fi look at relativity and alien worlds.......2004-03-17
A new spaceship, the Valkerie, is hurtling towards our nearest stelar companion, Alpha-Centauri. Onboard, are two humans and a computer AI who will be responsible for charting the worlds they find, and communicating thier findings back to earth.
They find a planet which seems to have no evidence of intelligent life, but upon further investigation they find a species of life which displays incredible mental abilities, and these people are totally unafraid of the aliens landing on thier world.
During the voyage to Alpha Centauri, Chris Wayville suffers from nightmares, waking dreams, and visions of lives lived and re-lived, horrid mistakes made, and again and again he begins on his voyage which he feels is destined to cause the destruction of Earth. Several years later, Earth, reciving these demented ravings fears for earth, and begins planning for a strike against whatever may be coming back.
As Chris and Clarice get to know the inhabitants, they also learn hard lessons on interfering in the natural set up of an alien world, and how one seemingly meaningless mistake can cause devestation.
Flying to Valhalla isn't heavy on charachter development, the science and theory of relativity, alien evoloution, and alien technology and society taking the front stage. Still, a quick and enjoyable read.
A Great Read!.......1997-12-02
This is one incredible Sci-Fi read . It really can't be absorbed in one reading. It does have some really good Hard Sci-Fi and is thankfully bereft of the "Sexy" implausable starships common to the drivel written by the likes of David Weber, and Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek farce. The characters aren't as strong as they could be. Which is a failing i've noticed in all technical speculative fiction, most recently noted in Jeff Cramer's Einstein's Bridge. I highly recommend it, although better characterization and stronger female characters ( Strong female characters don't have to be vindictive shrews ), would have made it a 9 in my book. I also recommend the sequel "The Killing Star".
Interesting hard-science look at plausible intestellar trave.......1997-04-09
The thing I liked best about this was the hard-science take at both parallel universe theory, as well as a practical design for a starship that could reach nearl light speed with technology not to far from where we are today. A fine collection of plausible technical points with a decent story built around it, and while I'm not a big fan of parallel universe stories in general, it wasn't oppressive or cliched.
The technical paper at the end of the novel detailing the design of the starship, as well as discussion on abuse of the technology was almost worth the price of purchase. (Reltivisitic bombs, that is an asteroid accelerated to near light speed, make H-Bombs look like wet fire-crackers).
A fun hard-science book, and even more enjoyable scientific technical paper about the starship technology described in the novel at the end make this a good read
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- my new fave ... great even for a vegan diet
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The New American Plate Cookbook: Recipes for a Healthy Weight and a Healthy Life
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We all want great-tasting meals, but we also want meals that help us maintain a healthy weight and live longer, healthier lives. Marrying the art and science of food, The New American Plate Cookbook is the first cookbook designed to accomplish all three goals. A team of cooks, nutritionists, food writers, scientists, and others who are passionate about food collaborated to create 200 recipes, from appetizers to desserts, that combine sound nutrition with culinary ingenuity. From updated favorites to innovative showstoppers, The New American Plate Cookbook delights the senses--with vivid colors, tempting aromas, and luscious flavors--while helping you reduce your risk of serious health problems like cancer and heart disease. Whether you wish to achieve a healthy weight or find a lifelong approach to eating nutritious meals, The New American Plate Cookbook will satisfy your conscience while it dazzles your palate.
The New American Plate Cookbook includes:
*200 recipes, from appetizers, soups, and salads to one-pot dishes and entrées to vegetables, egg dishes, breads, pilafs, desserts, and more
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Bruschetta with Green Pea and Roasted Garlic Spread
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my new fave ... great even for a vegan diet.......2007-09-26
I'm on Day 6 of a 30-day vegan challenge (just diet, not lifestyle). I just got this book last week and the timing was perfect. It has dozens of gourmet-tasting but easy recipes that are either vegan or easily converted--vegetable recipes, soups, salads, grains, and even some desserts.
Most of the recipes focus on plant foods (which is the whole point of "the new American plate"). The grains recipes often rely on intact grains, which I prefer over flours. The recipes are pretty simple but contain yummy combos I would never have done on my own, like quinoa with peas and sage, or roasted parsnips with sweet potatoes and apples.
The book has a nice layout, a thorough index, and photography that makes me drool (yes, over vegetables). I just wish I could find more books exactly like this one. I'd give it more stars if I could.
Favorite cookbook.......2007-08-08
I've been cooking healthy for a while, but this is by far the best overall cookbook (healthy or not) I have come across. Everything I tried has been great. Even my picky daughter has bought a copy and lives by it, so whether you have gourmet tastes or plebeian like my daughter, it is a perfect cookbook.
The Best Cookbook.......2007-04-26
It amazes me that the best healthy eating cookbook is also the best cookbook for modern American cuisine. My fiance bought this book about a year ago and I am consistently impressed by the variety and taste of the food contained within (it also helps that she is wonderful). My personal favorite: the couscous with raisin, apricot and ground beef.
Great read.......2007-03-09
I received this book wrapped in plastic and once opened I was overwhelmed with the smell of mildew. Once all was corrected (great customer service) I enjoyed it. I have cooked several things and tried new legumes I had never heard of. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the art of cooking healthy unusually good foods.
This cookbook is GREAT........2007-01-30
Having recently gone into remission, one of my key focuses is to eat healthier, etc. This cookbook really helps. I know what I should eat, the problem is making it taste good enough. This cookbook knows what spices go well with vegetables, etc. to make them wonderful. You can eat well without feeling guilty.
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More than 60,000 copies sold in hardcover! Celebrate tea--the nectar of the gods--with an informative and lushly photographed salute to this incomparable beverage. More than 35 recipes for tea-related confections and parties help you plan special and fun occasions, including a wedding shower tea, Christmas tea, and tea party for children. But tea is for every day, too. Brew up the perfect breakfast with Spicy Rose Tea and freshly baked English Muffins spread with Strawberry-Lemon Balm Butter. Or settle down with a cup and an engrossing book; reading suggestions are included. Find out about exquisitely beautiful teacups and pots; about the business of tea (from the owner of a tea salon, a tea blender, and a tea grower); and charming nuggets of wisdom about this ancient drink.
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Victoria The Pleasures of Tea.......2007-03-08
This was in excellent condition, a delight to read and the delievery was fast ................Tea Meetings for the PBS Rhode Island are available, I think of all the lovely English Programs on PBS, it's wonderful. Thanks
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Take a tour of nearly 150 dollhouses from Europe and America in this beautifully illustrated book. The houses and their furnishings are shown in over 700 color photographs provided with the help of nearly twenty individual collectors. Most of the houses are pictured fully furnished, complete with accessories. The houses range in size from one-room Converse models to very large handmade houses, and many are also shown with the dolls that lived inside. You'll enjoy several hundred pieces of furniture, all dating from the 1880s to the 1980s. Companies whose products are pictured include Arcade, Bliss, Christian Hacker, Converse, Schoenhut, Strombecker, Tootsietoy, Gottschalk, Deluxe Game Corp., Lines, Tri-Ang, Renwal, Ideal, Plasco, Marx, Reliable and others. Background information on over sixty-five companies is also provided. A must-have for anyone interested in dollhouses and their furnishings, this charming and informative book also includes prices with the captions.
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Based on two text books produced for the saddlery and harness technical school in 1904, this book is still in wide use today.
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Make Your Own Horse Equipment
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Full instructions for making more than 40 items of equipment, including reins and ropes.
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S.D. Myres: saddlemaker
Sandra L Myres
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Saddle making
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Basic Autocad for Interior Designers Using Release 14
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Concise, progressive, and easy-to-understand, this must-have guide for interior design professionals offers highly visual, project-oriented tutorials focusing on usable professional skills and provides many examples which follow current professional drafting conventions and standards. Explains AutoCAD commands in the context of interior design drafting projects and tasks. Offers "fool-proof" visual, step-by-step interactive instructions that include what a user should do as well as AutoCAD's command prompt line. Includes tutorials on how to start a floor plan, dimensions, drawing and elevation, building a 3D model, and more. Assumes minimal computing experience.
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Adobe Photoshop 6.0 - Curso Completo En Un Libro
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The marvelous second chapter of Farewell sets the mood for everything to come in the noted playwright's memoir of his childhood in tiny Wharton, Texas. As a young Horton Foote questions his parents about their "elopement"--they had to go five blocks across town to be wed by a Baptist minister because his mother's Methodist parents didn't approve of the match--the intricate web of kinship, friendship, and local geography that shapes small-town life is hilariously yet touchingly revealed in each of their asides and elaborations. Foote's birth in 1916 healed the family rift, and he grew up in a cozy environment where everyone knew everyone else and more or less accepted their eccentricities. He doesn't gloss over the harsh realities of racial prejudice and segregation, but his tone is nonetheless elegiac, glowing with the magic of the characters' storytelling. Southerners have always been famous for their ability to spin yarns, and Foote captures that in extended passages of conversation. Direct quotes are generally cause for suspicion in a memoir, but when the dialogue has the same vigor and subtlety found in the author's screenplays and plays (A Trip to Bountiful and The Young Man from Atlanta among them), you're willing to give Foote the benefit of the doubt. --Wendy Smith
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For more than five decades, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled the changes in American life -- both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screenplay Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards. He received an Indie Award for Best Writer for The Trip to Bountiful and a Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta.
In his plays and films, Foote has returned over and over again to Wharton, Texas, where he was born and where he lives, once again, in the house in which he grew up. Now for the first time, in Farewell, Foote turns to prose to tell his own story and the stories of the real people who have inspired his characters. His memoir is both a celebration of the immense importance of community and evidence that even a strong community cannot save a lost soul. Farewell is as deeply moving as the best of Foote's writing for film and theater, and a gorgeous testimony to his own faith in the human spirit.
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In 1917, when Horton Foote was one year old, his family moved into a house on his grandparents property in Wharton, Texas. Seventy years later, he returned to that house where he still lives. And while the years between took this acclaimed writer many literal and figurative miles, he remained forever tied to the Texas roots that he explores in Farewell. Foote reveals memories of a complex Southern family full of secrets, an aspiring young actor shaped by the storytellers around him, and a world changing at a frenetic pace. Foote, the author of A Trip to Bountiful, remembers a time in which black and white children played together until school age, when segregation forced them apart. But by drawing on the experiences of those around him, he transforms his memoir into something else entirely: a glimpse into history, and a heartfelt tribute to the passions, ideals, and complexities of small-town American life in the early part of this century. It is also a testimony to the power of storytelling. There is a frank simplicity in Foote's telling that makes Farewell a profoundly moving and illuminating reading experience, one that will long be remembered.
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A Treasure.......2006-09-14
Reading Farewell, it is hard to imagine how Horton Foote ever followed the path in life that he ultimately took. Yet the tiny town of Wharton, Texas, did produce a legendary American writer, and his memoir about growing up in small-town Texas is a charming, well-crafted pleasure to read. The book brought back some similar childhood memories. But Foote's clean writing and vivid descriptions will also delight readers unfamiliar with this forgotten way of life.
A Patina of Memories..........2004-01-07
As someone who grew up in a small town in Texas, I can identify with so much of this book. My late Mother's childhood and her stories of growing up in a rural area with colorful characters are very similar to Mr. Foote's story. If you didn't grow up in this era or in a small town, these stories may not have the charm I feel about them, but Horton Foote could bring a tear to a glass eye with his charming memories, and I will bet that he can tug at your heartstrings as well. There is a place for sentiment and burnished memories in this busy life of ours, and I found myself wanting more after reading this memoir. As I read this book, I found myself envisioning the whole story in a pleasant sepia toned, soft cocoon of a state of mind. You come too.
It takes a village..........2001-05-05
Among all the facinating characters of the small town, Mr. Foote must be the town gossip (but not a malicious one). Seems like Mr. Foote knew EVERYONE... and I don't think he left anybody out, either. Fun to read, good storytelling style, but it seemed more like a series of great characters sketches than a "real" memoir. At the end I was frustrated that I didn't find out more about how he got started as an actor/playwrite/etc. But that's nothing a sequel won't solve.
A Texas Childhood.......2000-11-04
Think life in a small town is idyllic? Think again. Horton Foote gives us a portrait of his home town, complete with the details many wish to forget. Pettiness. Alcoholism. Racism.
At the same time, Foote describes his childhood in tones that leave a lasting impression of roots and home. Of growing up and new responsibility. Of family.
Foote has shared with us his appreciation for small town life in such great works as "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Trip to Bountiful" and now "Farewell". Enjoy.
Childhood Remembered.......2000-07-12
I just finished re-reading this book, and enjoyed it more this time than previously, probably because I literally devoured the first read. I come from a rather limited circle of family and was enchanted by the seemingly endless supply of relatives and their stories. To be embraced by such an environment as a child and to relate this to the reader is to share a very precious gift. Thank you Mr. Foote,and please give us a sequel.
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